This limited series showcases the latest developments in the world of public health, and the contributions from Imperial College London's Jameel Institute.
The COVID-19 pandemic has given many people a solid background in epidemiological theory, and now you can put that knowledge to use, learning more about some of the world's biggest public health challenges, from the experts themselves.
JI Symposium 2024 - Healthcare Interrupted: Health Systems in Emergencies
This episode brings you further highlights from the speakers at our 2024 Symposium, on the theme of "Strengthening Health Systems for Emergencies". Here in part 2, we present the panel discussion bringing together specialists with extensive real world experience of delivering healthcare in emergency settings.
Speakers include:
Olivier le Polain | Unit Head, Acute Events Analytics, Health Emergencies Programme, WHO
Rachael Cummings | Humanitarian Director, Save The Children
Oksana Lovochkina | CEO Ukrainian Medical Charity
Marine Vignon | European Partnerships Director, ALIMA
Sian White | CEO, UKHIH
You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @imperial-jameel.bsky.social.
Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole
Music: Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)
Recorded and produced by Thom Rawson (t.rawson@imperial.ac.uk)
11 Feb 2025
JI Symposium 2024 - Strengthening Health Systems for Emergencies
This episode brings you highlights from the speakers at our 2024 Symposium, on the theme of "Strengthening Health Systems for Emergencies". Maintaining and optimising health systems - the way we deliver health care, is hard enough under normal working conditions. But what about in emergency settings? Pandemics, natural disasters, global conflicts, all introduce unique challenges that we need to work to overcoming.
Speakers include:
Professor Helena Legido-Quigley (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/245116/professor-legido-quigley-appointed-chair-health-systems/) | Chair in Health Systems Science, School of Public Health, Imperial College London
Professor Marisa Miraldo (https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/m.miraldo) | Professor in Health Economics and Policy, Business School, Imperial College London
Dr Margherita Molaro (https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/margherita.molaro) | Research Fellow, School of Public Health, Imperial College London
Dr Oliver Watson (https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/o.watson15) | Lecturer, School of Public Health, Imperial College London
Dr Bhargavi Rao (https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/rao.bhargavi) | Clinical Associate Professor, Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @imperial-jameel.bsky.social.
Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole
Music:
Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity
Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)
Recorded and produced by Thom Rawson (t.rawson@imperial.ac.uk)
17 Sept 2024
Lilith Whittles - Mpox
This episode, we speak to Dr. Lilith Whittles, about a disease that has recently been, once again, declared a "Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)". This episode will give you a full update on these latest outbreaks, and everything you might have wanted to ask about Mpox, but didn't know how or where.
You can read more about the WHO's, and Imperial's, work on Mpox here: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/255693/mpox-who-experts-respond-questions-current/ (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/255693/mpox-who-experts-respond-questions-current/)
For updates as we go, you can follow @Imperial_Jameel and @MRC_Outbreak.
Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole
Music:
Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity
Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)
Recorded and produced by Dr. Thom Rawson (t.rawson@imperial.ac.uk)
23 Jul 2024
The Economics of Pandemic Preparedness
Episode Notes
We're arriving once again in your podcast feed for a brief glimpse into the room at one of our recent events: "The economics of pandemic preparedness: Trade-offs in peacetime and pandemics". This was an event co-organised and funded by the Imperial College London Abdul Latif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics, the Institute of Infection, and The Centre for Health Economics & Policy Innovation. The day gathered experts across these institutions to sit down and discuss how we can better align health and economic needs for future pandemics.
You'll hear from Prof. Jonathan Haskel of the Bank of England, Prof. Susan Michie - the Director of the Centre for Behavioural Change, and Dr. Els Torreele of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.
You can watch the full series of talks and discussions in the event video recording here: https://youtu.be/RZQbYqmk5eE?si=GMsK6sXpgagbt4oL (https://youtu.be/RZQbYqmk5eE?si=GMsK6sXpgagbt4oL)
Other speakers include Prof. Sir John Edmunds from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, the former Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention; and Prof. Edith Patouillard from the World Health Organisation (WHO) Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.
Even better, we've just published our report from this event, detailing the ideas generated, and how we're going to start addressing the challenges discussed at this event: https://t.co/nOWrO0VKYR (https://t.co/nOWrO0VKYR)
You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @Imperial_Jameel.
Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole
Music:
Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity
Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)
Recorded and produced by Dr. Thom Rawson (t.rawson@imperial.ac.uk)
12 Dec 2023
JI Symposium - Climate Change & Health
We close out this series of JameelCast with some highlights from our 2023 symposium: "How to reduce the impact of climate change on health - Research evidence on effective intervention." This day event brought together hundreds of stakeholders in academia, business, finance, and industry, to hear more on the cutting edge research into how the world's health will be struck by the climate crisis.
We hear from Prof. Ralf Toumi of the Grantham Institute, Dr. Laure de Preux of the Imperial College Business School, Prof. Frank Kelly of the Environmental Research Group, King's College London, and Dr. Ilaria Dorigatti of Imperial College London.
You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @Imperial_Jameel.
Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole
Music:
Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity
Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)
Recorded and produced by Dr. Thom Rawson (t.rawson@imperial.ac.uk)Episode Notes
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5 Dec 2023
Thom Rawson - Zoonotic Disease
Episode Notes
Today, the tables turn, as Dr. Thom Rawson finds himself on the other side of the interview, introducing his area of expertise, zoonotic diseases - diseases in animals. Most human pandemics begin with an animal disease crossing over to humans. What is the chance of this happening again? What can we do to minimise the risk of this happening?
You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @Imperial_Jameel.
Artwork:
Georgia Melodie Hole
Music:
Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity
Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)
Recorded and produced by Tristan Naidoo & Thom Rawson (t.rawson@imperial.ac.uk)
28 Nov 2023
Timothy Hallett - HIV
Episode Notes
This World AIDS Day, we hear about the work of Prof. Tim Hallett. From his early work helping inform WHO guidelines and treatment regimens, to his work today in helping strengthen and support wider health systems more holistically.
You can read about the work of Thanzi La Onse here: thanzi.org/ (http://thanzi.org/)
Or learn more about the health system model itself at: tlomodel.org/ (http://tlomodel.org/)
You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @Imperial_Jameel.
Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole
Music:
Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity
Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)
Recorded and produced by Dr. Thom Rawson (t.rawson@imperial.ac.uk)
21 Nov 2023
Bin Zhou - Hypertension
Episode Notes
One in three adults worldwide suffer from high blood pressure - a non-communicable disease that significantly worsens your outcomes from other diseases too. Today we hear from Dr. Bin Zhou on his research in mapping and understanding the state of the world's hypertension burden, and how that's changed over time.
You can see the output of the NCD-RisC group from their website: https://ncdrisc.org/ (https://ncdrisc.org/)
You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @Imperial_Jameel.
Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole
Music:
Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity
Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)
Recorded and produced by Dr. Thom Rawson (t.rawson@imperial.ac.uk)
14 Nov 2023
Patrick Doohan - Pandemic Preparedness
Episode Notes
The COVID-19 pandemic taught us a lot of things, first and foremost, how do we best prepare for the inevitable next time? Today, we speak with Dr. Patrick Doohan on the topic of Pandemic Preparedness, and the leading new research on investing for future pandemics.
You can learn more about the workings of the DAEDALUS model that Patrick discusses here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-022-00233-0 (https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-022-00233-0)
You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @Imperial_Jameel.
Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole
Music:
Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity
Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)
Recorded and produced by Dr. Thom Rawson (t.rawson@imperial.ac.uk)
7 Nov 2023
Katharina Hauck - Health Economics
Episode Notes
We've heard a lot so far about some of the latest technologies, policy making, and global interventions. There's one thing that all of these advancements require however - money. Today, we speak with the Jameel Institute's Deputy Director Prof. Katharina Hauck, for a dive into the world of Health Economics. How do we value health? How do we provide funding? How do we get the most bang-for-our-buck? Find out in this week's episode.
Read more about the newly established The Jameel Institute – Kenneth C Griffin Initiative for the Economics of Pandemic Preparedness: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/240191/jameel-institute-announces-initiative-increase-global/ (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/240191/jameel-institute-announces-initiative-increase-global/)
You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @Imperial_Jameel.
Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole
Music:
Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity
Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)
Recorded and produced by Dr. Thom Rawson (t.rawson@imperial.ac.uk)
31 Oct 2023
Nimalan Arinaminpathy - Tuberculosis
Episode Notes
Tuberculosis is one of the world's biggest disease burdens, and also one of the most unequal. Depending on where you live in the world, it's either a forgotten relic of a different time, or a daily threat to your life. In this episode, Prof. Nimalan Arinaminpathy talks us through the scale of the TB challenge, and his work in helping End TB.
Read more about the WHO's global End TB targets and strategy here: https://www.who.int/teams/global-tuberculosis-programme/the-end-tb-strategy (https://www.who.int/teams/global-tuberculosis-programme/the-end-tb-strategy)
You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @Imperial_Jameel.
Artwork:
Georgia Melodie Hole
Music:
Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity
Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)
Recorded and produced by Dr. Thom Rawson (t.rawson@imperial.ac.uk)
24 Oct 2023
Tristan Naidoo - Learning from Twitter Data
Episode Notes
AI technology is everywhere in the news nowadays. This week, we hear from Tristan Naidoo, one of the Jameel Institute's PhD students, on how he is leveraging the boom in natural language processing for his own research: using social media data from Twitter, to try and understand how the public reacts to adherence measures like lockdown.
Try sentiment analysis for yourself at https://tweetnlp.org/demo/ (https://tweetnlp.org/demo/)
Read more about the "Perceptron" here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron)
You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @Imperial_Jameel.
Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole
Music:
Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity
Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)
Recorded and produced by Dr. Thom Rawson (t.rawson@imperial.ac.uk)
17 Oct 2023
Anne Cori - Forecasting Disease Spread
Episode Notes
During a disease outbreak, it's crucial to know how fast a disease is spreading through a population. This week, Dr. Anne Cori talks us through her research - making these rapid assessments of transmissibility easier and more accessible than ever before.
You can explore the software package Anne discusses for yourself at: https://github.com/jstockwin/EpiEstimApp/wiki (https://github.com/jstockwin/EpiEstimApp/wiki).
For more information on Anne's research, you can follow her on Twitter at @dr_anne_cori.
You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @Imperial_Jameel.
Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole
Music:
Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity
Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)
Recorded and produced by Dr. Thom Rawson (t.rawson@imperial.ac.uk)
10 Oct 2023
Neil Ferguson - Responding to Epidemics
Episode Notes
For this first episode, take a look back at the last 30 years of disease outbreak response. See how the field has grown and developed, and how lessons have been learned, as told by a scientist with 30 years of experience working on the front line - Prof. Neil Ferguson.
See the 2023 UK's National Risk Register here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-risk-register-2023 (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-risk-register-2023)
You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @Imperial_Jameel.
Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole
Music:
Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity
Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)
Recorded and produced by Dr. Thom Rawson (t.rawson@imperial.ac.uk)
28 Sept 2023
JameelCast - Trailer
Episode Notes
Introducing JameelCast, the podcast showcasing the latest public health research, from the scientists themselves. This limited series will explore Disease Forecasting, AI Technologies, Health Economics, Pandemic Preparedness and more.
Subscribe now to catch every episode.
You can find out more about the Jameel Institute at our website:
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jameel-institute (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jameel-institute)
And follow us on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/Imperial_Jameel (https://twitter.com/Imperial_Jameel)
Artwork:
Georgia Melodie Hole
Music:
Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity
Recorded and produced by Thom Rawson (t.rawson@imperial.ac.uk)
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